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Quotes About Ingratitude

In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
~ Saint Ignatius
Odiosa razza di uomini, quella che rinfaccia i favori, che dovrebbe ricordare chi li ha ricevuti, non chi li fece.
~ Marco Tullio Cicerone
But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat them up, and absorb their vitality, and remain immortal themselves. Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded on their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.
~ Margaret Atwood
Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms and flourishes.
~ Paul McCabe
Unthankfulness is theft.
~ Martin Luther
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims
~ Rabindranath Tagore
There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
~ Reginald Horace Blyth
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
~ Ann Voskamp
seesth thou a man tha isn't GRATEFUL? He is a GREAT FOOL
~ Pastor Erukeoghene Taunu PET
Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
~ Louis XIV
This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What an ingrate I would be to curse the fate that concludes the blessed life I've led.
~ John McCain
This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All recipients of charity hate their Benefactors.
~ Elizabeth Chater
It has been my experience throughout life that the people who have been given the most by our government—education, food, rent subsidies—are the ones who are most apt to find fault with the whole idea of government.
~ Elizabeth Strout
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You traitor! We took you out of darkest Africa, got you civilized, gave you the word of our Redeemer Jesus Christ, and this is the thanks?
~ Sarah Bird
Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
~ Samuel Garth
It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.
~ Rufus Sewell
Cicerón tachó a la ingratitud de olvido.
~ Anselm Grün
own husband. And even now, it seemed to argue so black an ingratitude on her part—this accusation that she was indifferent to them! From her childhood upwards she had revered and loved Lady Lufton, and for years had taught herself to regard her
~ Anthony Trollope
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
~ Sophocles
We are given this beautiful life, this beautiful world, and we destroy it with ingratitude and hate.
~ Marty Rubin
You are an ingrate and you will remain an ingrate until you imbibe/portray gratitude as your attitude/lifestyle for life.
~ Emeasoba George